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Clipping from The Daily News on July 4, 1963, covering the violent conflicts that broke out at the Barringer High School Construction site the day before. Members of the Newark Coordinating Council and their supporters were attacked by construction workers and police officers as they demonstrated against hiring discrimination in the building and construction industries at the construction site. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Clipping from an unmarked newspaper, covering the planned demonstrations at the construction site of Barringer High School by the Newark Coordinating Council (NCC). The NCC had given the city government 30 days to take action against hiring discrimination in the building and construction trades and announced that mass demonstrations would follow unless construction work was halted by City Hall. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Public statement issued by Mayor Addonizio on June 27, 1963, in which he addresses employment discrimination in the building and construction industries and offers a set of recommendations to address employment discrimination in the city. Addonizio’s statement was issued in response to threats by the Newark Coordinating Council to picket city construction projects to protest hiring discrimination in the building and construction trades against Blacks and Puerto Ricans. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Front page of the Newark Evening News on July 3, 1963, covering the conflict at the Barringer High School construction site. The demonstrations were organized by the Newark Coordinating Committee to demand hiring of Black and Puerto Ricans in the building and construction industries. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Chapters One and Two of a report prepared in 1964 for the Newark Summer Project, a joint undertaking of the Newark Committee on Fully Employment, the Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the National Committee for Full Employment. The report provides insights into employment opportunities available to, and discrimination faced by, African Americans in Newark. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers

Photo from the Newark Evening News of demonstrators picketing outside of the Barringer High School construction site in 1963. Community leaders organized protests at the site over the lack of Black and Puerto Rican representation in the building and construction trades. — Credit: Newark Public Library

A series of articles from the Newark Evening News in 1956 titled “The Negro in Essex.” The series of articles drew upon the results of a survey the paper conducted in an attempt to call attention to issues of discrimination, segregation, and inequality faced by Newark’s African American communities. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Unmarked photo of a Krueger Delivery Truck. The Krueger brewery was one of Newark’s many German-owned breweries, which took advantage of some of the purest water on the East Coast and employed many German immigrants. — Credit:

A detailed chronology of the activities of the Essex County Urban League from 1917-1952. The Urban League was one of the most active and influential organizations advocating for African Americans in Newark in the early 1900s. — Credit: Newark Public Library